Caves, Spelunking, and Cave-Bat Links

National Speleological Society
(NSS) General caving information

Glossary of Speleological and Caving Terms
Australian Speleological Federation (ASF)

Digging for the truth about fruit bats,
cryptozoology, and a living "pterodactyl"

Caves in Saudi Arabia
The Desert Caves Project

 

Spelunking (caving)

Oregon Caves (National Park Service)
“Oregon Caves National Monument offers family-focused opportunities to explore a marble cave . . . hike trails . . .”

Cave or overhang where giant “indava” or “ropen” was

sleeping: believed to be a live Rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur.

How can we pin down any general connection between caves and bats? For example, in New Mexico, the Carlsbad Caverns have hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats (also called the Brazilian free tailed); but only a few miles away, in the deepest cave in the U.S. (Lechuguilla), there are no living bats, only a few skeletons (except near the entrance).